[silence] (OT) BBC Radio - The CIA and the Avant Garde

[Graham Urquhart]

Sorry not directly related to Cage but may be of interest.  A BBC radio 
documentary which features Amy Beal whose book was recommended on the 
list recently.  The programme is available to listen to at the 
undernoted link for the next seven days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/etlar/(

'Tommy Pearson travels to the German city of Darmstadt to help celebrate 
the 60th anniversary of the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik 
- one of the most notoriously avant-garde music festivals in the world. 
But there are rumours that in the late 40s and early 50s, this radical 
festival, run by leftist composers, was covertly funded by the CIA! With 
composer and former Darmstadt composition tutor Christopher Fox at his 
side, Tommy attempts to make sense of the murky worlds of avant-garde 
music and the cultural Cold War'.

Regards


Graham